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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Welcome everyone who is hopping around during the Blog Hop Party. For those who do not know about it just click on the button over on the right on have a look around.
My giveaway is a gorgeous pattern of a replica quilt made by Mrs. Williams sometime between 1830-1850. Inside the pattern is the story of the quilt. The original quilt and story can be found in the book 'The American Quilt A Historty of Cloth and Conmfort 1750-1950 by Roderick Kiracof.
This version is replicated by 'Threadbear' of Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.
To win this great pattern please leave a comment about the design and perhaps what colours you would like to made in. I am happy to post worldwide!!

83 comments:

Oh that would be easy to do...... REDS and WHITES!!! Welcome back to blogging....... your absence has been noted!! Re: I have Sylvia's sampler to do as well........... I have it out on my desk, and that's about as far as I have done. Maybe once you've posted up your pictures, I may just find the time to commence this quilt. Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful pattern.........take care. Judy

What an amazing pattern! I would love to have a long-term project like this to plug away at! I think I would make this in bright, modern solids to marry the traditional with the contemporary (I love to build bridges - ha ha!). Thanks for the chance to win!

This would be a quilt to treasure forever. What a wonderful gift to give away to one of your followers.It would be a reminder of days forgotten and would be an honor to receive the pattern. Probably would choose brown, beige and tan or maybe red, beige and brown. Thank you for the wonderful opportunity to win.

What a wonderful pattern. I never have heard about this. Well, I'm not an exprienced quilter so I think it's normal ;p. It will be great in repro fabrics like Darlene Zimermann or sandy klop collections.Thanks for a wonderful giveaway

Oh it is a delight. I think I would love to do it in red, white and blue.. MAYBE.. cuz I would certainly drool over it and debate for a white to be sure. I would most certainly hand work this and learn a LOT about quilting!!

I would love to make this in blue and white! It warms my heart when people produce patterns based on historic quilts, I like knowing that I'm making something that could actually have been constructed a hundred or more years ago. Thank you for the generous giveaway! :)

Love Love Love this pattern - this would make my container of scraps so happy to be made into this lovely quilt - the pattern is just made for them.Thanks for the great giveaway.MaryLouFun4Me1249@aol.com

I think I'd need to have it in hand and study it for a bit. When I start pulling fabrics for a project, the project tends to take on it's own voice and guide itself in directions totally different from where I started!

Thank you for the chance. I love the history of quilting and love that the history is included with the pattern!

I think I would do all solids, and in reds, tone on tone!Thanks for the giveaway!xErin(p.s.: I'm not sure if you'd be interested or not, but I've started a new bee: Simply Solids: a modern {bee}, and we're looking for Australasia members...here's my blog if you want any more info!http://mummyquilts.blogspot.com/2012/11/members-wanted-simply-solids-modern-bee.html)